Work, Meloni’s move: « More safety funds ». On May 8 unions at Palazzo Chigi

Faced with the deaths at work, « they are not tolerable nor indifference or resignation ». Giorgia Meloni cites the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella And he chooses on the eve of the May Day to promise, in a recorded video, « one billion and two hundred million euros to improve safety on jobs ». In the aftermath of the words of the Head of State who had defined the deaths at the work « a plague », from the Council of Ministers yesterday morning a new decree of May 1st does not arrive as happened in the last two years, but the announcement of one « Allocation of new funds » Because, explains the Prime Minister, « today we dedicate the workers’ festival to this issue and we commit ourselves to doing even more »: the government, underlines, « will continue to put the culture of prevention at the center of its agenda ».

In addition to the 600 million of the INAIL calls already available, another 650 arrive « To field new concrete measures ». After listing the numbers of the work (« Over one million seats in two and a half years », « Record of employed », « female occupation never so high », « Dynamics of the wages better than the rest of Europe from October 2023 »), Meloni hopes « an alliance between institutions, unions, given associations to put security at work at the top of the priorities of Italy ».
AND The Minister of Labor Marina Calderone to give the date of the meeting: on May 8thwhen « the government will bring proposals and work lines to the table: it seems important to us a preventive sharing to make use of evaluations and stresses that come from the trade union, employer and productive world ». However, rejection arrive from the opposition. For the dem Elly Schlein « Meloni continues to lie by telling a country that is not there: how do you say that wages recover when the Istat data tell us that they are even lower, when we have the most expensive bills in Europe and the workers pay tripled them? ».

THE Unions, who celebrate the workers’ party by dedicating it to the deaths at work with rallies and processions and the traditional concert on May 1st in Rome, They collect the government’s invitation but remain skeptical. « We will understand better when we go to the encounter, » says the leader CGIL Maurizio Landini: « I wonder if it is yet another in which the government asks us for our proposals and then decides for his own facts or is the start of a negotiation in which an agreement is found ». And he adds: « Since no one is foolish, of the figures they speak of, 600 million, these are calls that the INAIL had already done ». The other 650 million « are always money from INAIL, not other additional resources ». CISL, who yesterday celebrated its 75 years with the president Mattarella, invokes « a great pact for the future », says General Secretary Daniela Fumarola who judges the convocation of 8 May « an important step: it is time to take a qualitative leap into the industrial and social relationships of the country », but underlines: « We have a problem of wages, not of quantity of work ». The leader Uil Pierpaolo Bombardieri relaunches the idea of ​​a « crime of murder for violation of the safety standards at work: when safety devices are eliminated they are not accidents, but murders ».

In the first two months of 2025, the people who lost their lives while working were 138, 16 percent more than 2024.